My husband puts the rubbish out while I do the cooking, says May
THERESA May’s husband Philip puts the bins out while she does the cooking, the Prime Minister reveals in a rare glimpse into her domestic life.
She has a collection of more than 100 cookery books but her husband has only “one or two recipes that he can rustle up himself,” she says. “I do the cooking because I enjoy cooking.”
Mrs May also gets the odd phone call from people who have confused her with a porn star who shares her name.
She says: “We do get calls from people who want to book me to do programmes which are perhaps not about politics.”
But in a more touching part of an interview with Sky TV journalist Sophy Ridge she talks about dealing with the tragedy of losing both her parents shortly after she was married in 1980. Her vicar father, Hubert Brasier, was killed in a car accident, then within months her mother, who suffered from multiple sclerosis, also died.
She said: “I have had quite a lot of letters from people, who have known me over the years and knew my family, who said how proud my parents would have been. They never saw me even become an MP.”
Mrs May also spoke about her childhood where she admitted she was generally a “goody two shoes” at school.
But she recalled that once she was expected to go to a school carol concert but instead wanted to watch the New Zealand All Blacks play. The head insisted “that’s for boys”, but her father wrote a letter saying “he thought I had been to a sufficient number of carol concerts and should be allowed to go to the rugby”.
The trip taught her that almost anything was possible for a girl. “I don’t think I’ve ever felt that being a woman in any way gets in the way.”
She also joked that her flamboyant high heels had been an icebreaker and an inspiration, getting people interested in politics.
The interview was for Sophy Ridge’s new book The Women Who Shaped Politics.